As always.. My blog is very very late. LOL.. Sorry about that everyone (especially those of you that follow our blog religiously). You know how it is like sometimes, life takes a hold on you and everything you can imagine happens all at once and 24 hours a day is not enough! Well the past few months has been like that for me so here it is.. The Ultimate Chocolate Cake.. 4 months late! :D
As it was my birthday month, everyone at Bake Club decided that it should be held at my place. Birthday boy can't have everything, can he? He's got to clean up as well. I think it was the Bake Clubbers' idea of playing a prank on me.. Not really to be honest. They are a very nice bunch. They think it would be good for me to choose a cake that I like and we all bake it for my birthday :)
I LOVE CHOCOLATE so it is only natural that I chose a chocolate cake (the host of the Bake Club gets to choose the recipe subject to everyone's approval and it's only fair that we host it in one another's kitchen so that everyone gets a chance to clean up :P) I got the recipe from BBC Good Food Guide and the recipe is shown in the link below..
I don't remember which mixture this is!
Nana pouring the divine chocolate mixture...
And Yusuf mixing it..
Doing his final stir..
And me pouring it gently into the tin.
"This bowl is so freaking heavy!!!"
Finally out of the oven..
And out of those painful tins..
Nana showing off the goods
"Boy it's so hard to chop these chocolates into bits"
The Ganache without sugar added
Yummmmmmm...........
Isn't that handsome?
We didn't have chocolate curls so
we shaved the chocolate using a cheese shaver.
(Please don't ask why)
As Nigella Lawson would say...
"Lovely!"
Nana was impatient and had to go
so we had to cut the cake before it sets.
Still very yummy I can assure you..
We didn't add sugar to the ganache cos the recipe already seemed very sweet and boy we were glad we didn't do that as the cake was very sweet indeed. That means something coming from someone who has a very sweet tooth!
I think every single of the Bake Clubbers agreed that it was a very yummy recipe. Definitely worth doing but try and use the best chocolate you can becos it makes a big difference. The downside is we had to get a bank loan after baking this cake! But boy it's worth it. So moist, rich and..... LOVELY!
